Richard Ekins

University of Oxford - Faculty of Law

Tutorial Fellow in Law

St Giles

Oxford, Oxfordshire OX1 3JP

United Kingdom

http://www.law.ox.ac.uk/profile/richard.ekins

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

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Scholarly Papers (19)

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Judging the Public Interest: The Rule of Law vs. The Rule of Courts

University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 49/2016
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 01 Oct 2016
Richard Ekins and Christopher F. Forsyth
University of Oxford - Faculty of Law and University of Cambridge
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Interpretive Choice in Statutory Interpretation

American Journal of Jurisprudence, Vol 59, 2014, Forthcoming, Oxford Legal Studies Research Paper No. 15/21014
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 26 Mar 2014
Richard Ekins
University of Oxford - Faculty of Law
Downloads 573 (104,169)
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interpretation, interpretive choice, legislative intent, jurisprudence

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The Nature of Legislative Intent: Introduction

Richard Ekins, THE NATURE OF LEGISLATIVE INTENT, Oxford University Press, 2012, Oxford Legal Studies Research Paper No. 64/2012
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 05 Nov 2012
Richard Ekins
University of Oxford - Faculty of Law
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legislative intent, legislation, interpretation, philosophy of law, authority, group agency

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Objects of Interpretation

Constitutional Commentary, Forthcoming, Oxford Legal Studies Research Paper No. 46/2016
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 15 Jul 2016 Last Revised: 03 Aug 2016
Richard Ekins
University of Oxford - Faculty of Law
Downloads 414 (154,214)
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constitutional interpretation, constitutional law, originalism, intended meaning, interpretive choice

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The Reality and Indispensability of Legislative Intention

(2014) 36 Sydney Law Review 39, Monash University Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2013/45
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 14 Mar 2014
Richard Ekins and Jeffrey Denys Goldsworthy
University of Oxford - Faculty of Law and Monash University - Faculty of Law
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legislative intention; statutory interpretation

Legislated Rights and Contemporary Constitutional Government

(2020) 11 Jurisprudence, Queen's University Legal Research Paper No. 2020-007
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 06 Oct 2020
Grégoire Webber and Richard Ekins
Queen's University - Faculty of Law and University of Oxford - Faculty of Law
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human rights, constitutional theory, separation of powers, the executive, legislatures, judicial review, Ronald Dworkin, weak-form review, Commonwealth constitution, constitutional dialogue

Legislated Rights and Contemporary Constitutional Government

LSE Legal Studies Working Paper No. 14/2020
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 08 Dec 2020
Grégoire Webber and Richard Ekins
Queen's University - Faculty of Law and University of Oxford - Faculty of Law
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Human rights, constitutional theory, separation of powers, executive, legislature, judicial review, Ronald Dworkin, weak-form review, constitutional dialogue

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Facts, Reasons and Joint Action: Thoughts on the Social Ontology of Law

(2014) 44 Rechtstheorie (Forthcoming), Discusiones (in Spanish) Forthcoming), Oxford Legal Studies Research Paper No 26/2014
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 30 Apr 2014 Last Revised: 02 Apr 2015
Richard Ekins
University of Oxford - Faculty of Law
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jurisprudence, joint action, social ontology, Austin, Hart, Shapiro, collective intention

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Human Rights and the Separation of Powers

34 University of Queensland Law Journal 217-238
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 28 Apr 2016
Richard Ekins
University of Oxford - Faculty of Law
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Human rights, Separation of powers

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Legislated Rights in the Anglo-American Tradition

Faulkner Law Review, Vol. 10, 2018, Queen's University Legal Research Paper No. 2020-001
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 14 Jan 2020
Richard Ekins and Grégoire Webber
University of Oxford - Faculty of Law and Queen's University - Faculty of Law
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human rights, legal rights, constitutional law, central case, judicial review

Legislated Rights in the Anglo-American Tradition

LSE Legal Studies Working Paper No. 5/2020, Queen's University Legal Research Paper
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 23 Apr 2020
Richard Ekins and Grégoire Webber
University of Oxford - Faculty of Law and Queen's University - Faculty of Law
Downloads 74 (706,335)
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human rights, legal rights, constitutional law, central case analysis, judicial review

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Equal Protection and Social Meaning

American Journal of Jurisprudence, Vol. 57, 2012, Oxford Legal Studies Research Paper No. 11/2013
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 30 Jan 2013
Richard Ekins
University of Oxford - Faculty of Law
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equal protection, expressive content, social meaning, discrimination, intention

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Submission to the Parliamentary Inquiry into Australia's Human Rights Framework: Why the Australian Parliament should not enact a Human Rights Act

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 16 Nov 2023
Nicholas Aroney, Richard Ekins and Benjamin Saunders
The University of Queensland - T.C. Beirne School of Law, University of Oxford - Faculty of Law and Deakin University, Geelong, Australia - Deakin Law School
Downloads 134 (464,224)

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human rights, bills of rights, charters of rights, dialogue, legal certainty, legal predictability, juristocracy

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The Impact of the Human Rights Act 1998 in Twenty-Five Cases

Number of pages: 62 Posted: 12 Feb 2025
Conor Casey, Stephen Laws and Richard Ekins
University of Surrey, Policy Exchange and University of Oxford - Faculty of Law
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Human Rights and the Separation of Powers

R Ekins, 'Human Rights and the Separation of Powers' (2015) 34 University of Queensland Law Journal 217-238
Posted: 14 Apr 2016
Richard Ekins
University of Oxford - Faculty of Law

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Regulatory Responsibility

New Zealand Law Journal, 1, 25-29, 2010
Posted: 20 Jun 2015
Richard Ekins
University of Oxford - Faculty of Law

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How to Be a Free People

American Journal of Jurisprudence, 58 2: 163-182, 2013
Posted: 12 Jun 2015
Richard Ekins
University of Oxford - Faculty of Law

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The Intention of Parliament

Public Law, 709-726, 2010
Posted: 12 Jun 2015
Richard Ekins
University of Oxford - Faculty of Law

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Reckless Lawmaking and Regulatory Responsibility

New Zealand Law Review, 3: 407-442, 2011
Posted: 12 Jun 2015
Richard Ekins and Chye-Ching Huang
University of Oxford - Faculty of Law and New York University School of Law

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Acts of Parliament and the Parliament Acts

Law Quarterly Review, 123 91-115, 2007, University of Queensland TC Beirne School of Law Research Paper
Posted: 10 Jun 2015
Richard Ekins
University of Oxford - Faculty of Law

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Secular Fundamentalism and Democracy

Journal of Markets and Morality, Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 81-93, Spring 2005
Posted: 16 Jun 2006
Richard Ekins
University of Oxford - Faculty of Law

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secularism, democracy, religion